From the course: Occupational Safety and Health: Slips, Trips, and Falls
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Working with ladders
From the course: Occupational Safety and Health: Slips, Trips, and Falls
Working with ladders
- Many people use ladders at some point in time, whether it's at work or at home. They're great for helping us reach higher places. And there are many different types of ladders. Stepladders, extension ladders, step stools and combination ladders that can be configured to work for many different things. There are a lot of different aspects to using a ladder safely, and this is not going to be a comprehensive ladder safety course for people who work with ladders every day. However, I do want to talk about them here in terms of what you need to do to prevent yourself from falling off of a ladder. At the beginning of this course, I talked about short falls and the severe injuries that they can cause. And I talked about not being able to control your body position when you fall. Falling off of a ladder is a perfect example. At first look, again you might say, "Come on, I can work on a ladder without getting hurt".…
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